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Six factors predict 1-year survival after TAVR

Posted on: 02/05/2014 - 19:45

WASHINGTON – Patient gender was the only factor that significantly affected stroke risk during the first year following transcatheter aortic valve replacement, according to an analysis of data from...

Field of Interest: Cardiology
Type: News Item

CDC: Policy changes could prevent 100,000 deaths a year

Posted on: 01/05/2014 - 19:30

About one-third of heart disease deaths and one-fifth of cancer deaths could be prevented if overall U.S. death rates were the same as those in the states with the lowest rates, the Centers for...

Field of Interest: Oncology
Type: News Item

Vitamin D deficiency predicts aggressive prostate cancer

Posted on: 01/05/2014 - 05:05

Among African American men with abnormal prostate-specific antigen levels or abnormal findings on digital rectal examination of the prostate, biopsies are more likely to detect prostate cancer in...

Field of Interest: Oncology
Type: News Item

Budesonide safe, effective for microscopic colitis

Posted on: 01/05/2014 - 05:01

Oral budesonide is effective and safe for short-term treatment of collagenous colitis. Indeed, the finding supports the recent recommendation by the European Microscopic Colitis Group to make...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...
Type: News Item

Anti-TNFs equal in Crohn’s disease

Posted on: 01/05/2014 - 05:01

There is no significant difference between infliximab and adalimumab in Crohn’s disease, reported Dr. Mark T. Osterman and his colleagues in the May 1 issue of Clinical Gastroenterology and...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...
Type: News Item

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